[ WIP!!! | collabs??? ] welcome to the club, sam velez.
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"it's not pink, it's pastel red."
THE child OF aphrodite
samuel velez
NICKNAMES
- Sam / the nickname he introduces himself with and asks others to call him. Pro tip: do not call him Samuel unless you're his dad, and even then it makes him cringe
- Sammie / a nickname that his mom insists on using when she's being rather petty or childish, or otherwise trying to convince him of something (which is often); this is Aphrodite's standard nickname for him
- Pretty Boy / Ares' kids like to call him and his (few and far between) brothers this to try and start fights; some of his friends use it on him to make fun of the Ares kids
- Sammie / a nickname that his mom insists on using when she's being rather petty or childish, or otherwise trying to convince him of something (which is often); this is Aphrodite's standard nickname for him
- Pretty Boy / Ares' kids like to call him and his (few and far between) brothers this to try and start fights; some of his friends use it on him to make fun of the Ares kids
BIRTHPLACE Manhattan, New York
HOMETOWN Bayside, Queens, New York
DATE OF BIRTH February 2nd (18)
PRONOUNS He/Him/His
LANGUAGES
- English / native
- Ancient Greek / fluent
- French / advanced
- Ancient Greek / fluent
- French / advanced
FACE CLAIM Piero Mendez
BACK UP Jacob Morton
APPEARANCE
The first thing anyone ever notices about Sam is his hair. Those curls are dark and perfect, a shiny shade of almost-black that tends to leave people staring at him while he pushes it out of his (pale blue) eyes. He's also quite tall, 6'0 or 6'1, depending on who you ask, with a lean build and narrow shoulders. The Ares kids are right when they call him Pretty Boy, honestly, but he does have a few imperfections for what it's worth: his nose is a bit wide and noticeably uneven, while his lips (in his opinion) look way too big for his face. These are nit-picky things, of course, but they're those things he points out when deleting his selfies. His skin is very clear for a teenager, though, and that's one thing of his mom's that he's honestly thankful for.
Style-wise, he really hates the camp shirt they all have to wear. He says he looks like crap in yellow, but at least the expensive jeans or shorts he wears with them make his look good. His go-to shoes are a pair of Sperry sneakers he hasn't been able to part with in years in spite of his sisters' begging. He just likes high-quality fashion, okay? When it's entirely his choice, he's the type to dress-down a button up with the same jeans and sneakers, making great use of whites, pastels, and beachy patterns
Style-wise, he really hates the camp shirt they all have to wear. He says he looks like crap in yellow, but at least the expensive jeans or shorts he wears with them make his look good. His go-to shoes are a pair of Sperry sneakers he hasn't been able to part with in years in spite of his sisters' begging. He just likes high-quality fashion, okay? When it's entirely his choice, he's the type to dress-down a button up with the same jeans and sneakers, making great use of whites, pastels, and beachy patterns
DESCRIPTION here should be a mini-bio of your character. like a quick description of your character and whether or not they're a complete headass. five to ten sentences should suffice. don't make it too long please! roughly the length below would work.
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TRIVIA
- Sam doesn't mind fighting per se, but he thinks that running in guns ablazin' is super dumb. So, he's more of a "hide and wait in the bushes" type who takes advantage of/punishes the enemy's inevitable screw ups
- Paired with the right people--because he dislikes fighting alone--Sam and Co. are able to more or less force the enemy to screw up. He'd work well with any one of Athena's kids because #strategy
- That said, his weapon of choice is a good old dagger for some sick assassinations and hand-to-hand moments
- It's honestly shameful how much this boy likes memes. Someone at camp showed him and he was literally hooked. Favorites include "this is fine" and "evil kermit"
- His humor, then, is a solid 40-60% split of memes and jokes. So many jokes. Most erted Camper 2017
- Side note: he kind of really likes butts. It's a problem; not that he's done anything really not okay or inappropriate to anyone else, but he tends to comment on celebrity butts in pictures
- His more... "Typical" sisters (i.e. the vain, gossipy, air-headed ones) really annoy him. Especially when they follow him around because it's so cool having a hot brother or something--which is borderline creepy for Sam
- He takes his fashion very seriously, but his style is quite different from most of his sisters' and his mom's. He likes some very high-chic, very LA-esque street style: lighter colors, beachy influence, etc. His Burberry sunglasses are life
- Sam actually, almost, really likes acting. He never had the motivation to commit to a school play, but he took an improv class in high school and it was the most fun he'd ever had
- That makes him a great liar, so using that to screw with people gives him a lot of pleasure
- Speaking of screwing with people, he doesn't like using his powers to mess with emotions. That's a moral line he doesn't like to cross
- Back home, he has a black cat named Alexandria who is the absolute love of his life. He adores cats
- Food allergies? None, but he says he's allergic to mushrooms because he can't stand eating them
- His music taste shifts between pop punk, rap, r&b, and electronic/edm fairly regularly. He honestly just likes about everything (not country)
- That said, being as affluent as he is, he goes to a lot of concerts that make other campers jealous. His usual and favorite concert buddies are Miranda, one of his sisters; or Adreis, if he really wanted to see whoever Sam had tickets for. Miranda's more or less down for any concert as long as it's loud
- An example? He saw Steve Aoki in Spain
- He doesn't like to actively tell people that his dad is, like, stupid rich, but they kind of figure it out from the money he blows on clothes and concerts. His money isn't something that he likes to hold over others, though, and he's not snotty about it
- Sam's down for casual or a girlfriend or anything, honestly. He's straight as a needle, but can appreciate the male form and might be swayed to experiment with guys if said guy was persistent
- Paired with the right people--because he dislikes fighting alone--Sam and Co. are able to more or less force the enemy to screw up. He'd work well with any one of Athena's kids because #strategy
- That said, his weapon of choice is a good old dagger for some sick assassinations and hand-to-hand moments
- It's honestly shameful how much this boy likes memes. Someone at camp showed him and he was literally hooked. Favorites include "this is fine" and "evil kermit"
- His humor, then, is a solid 40-60% split of memes and jokes. So many jokes. Most erted Camper 2017
- Side note: he kind of really likes butts. It's a problem; not that he's done anything really not okay or inappropriate to anyone else, but he tends to comment on celebrity butts in pictures
- His more... "Typical" sisters (i.e. the vain, gossipy, air-headed ones) really annoy him. Especially when they follow him around because it's so cool having a hot brother or something--which is borderline creepy for Sam
- He takes his fashion very seriously, but his style is quite different from most of his sisters' and his mom's. He likes some very high-chic, very LA-esque street style: lighter colors, beachy influence, etc. His Burberry sunglasses are life
- Sam actually, almost, really likes acting. He never had the motivation to commit to a school play, but he took an improv class in high school and it was the most fun he'd ever had
- That makes him a great liar, so using that to screw with people gives him a lot of pleasure
- Speaking of screwing with people, he doesn't like using his powers to mess with emotions. That's a moral line he doesn't like to cross
- Back home, he has a black cat named Alexandria who is the absolute love of his life. He adores cats
- Food allergies? None, but he says he's allergic to mushrooms because he can't stand eating them
- His music taste shifts between pop punk, rap, r&b, and electronic/edm fairly regularly. He honestly just likes about everything (not country)
- That said, being as affluent as he is, he goes to a lot of concerts that make other campers jealous. His usual and favorite concert buddies are Miranda, one of his sisters; or Adreis, if he really wanted to see whoever Sam had tickets for. Miranda's more or less down for any concert as long as it's loud
- An example? He saw Steve Aoki in Spain
- He doesn't like to actively tell people that his dad is, like, stupid rich, but they kind of figure it out from the money he blows on clothes and concerts. His money isn't something that he likes to hold over others, though, and he's not snotty about it
- Sam's down for casual or a girlfriend or anything, honestly. He's straight as a needle, but can appreciate the male form and might be swayed to experiment with guys if said guy was persistent
MISCELLANEOUS
PERSONALITY
THE SON OF APHRODITE
Gryffindor · ESFJ-A · Neutral Good
Gryffindor · ESFJ-A · Neutral Good
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BACKGROUND
"'Mom' is kind of a bad word in my family."
Geraldo Velez inherited an international trading firm from his father, Armando, when the older man suddenly died in his early 60s. Assuming Armando's role as Chairperson, the then-36 year old Geraldo began traveling the world from his native Valencia, Spain, eventually settling in Manhattan's East Village. It was there that he met a beautiful young woman--a friend of a friend's sister or something, he was too drunk to remember. This began a months long ual escapade that resulted in the young woman's pregnancy. When Geraldo offered to quietly pay child support so long as the woman otherwise disappeared from his life, she chuckled and didn't accept the money. She did disappear, though: Geraldo never saw her again, but he got a lifetime of what she left behind for him.
That woman was Aphrodite, and what she left behind was a baby boy in an ornate bassinet in Geraldo's expensive loft. Bechelor pad ruined by a tiny and whiny (albehit beautiful) baby, Geraldo began exploiting every means he had for fiding the woman--to no avail. Frantic, he considered putting the kid up for adoption until he realized that this whole story is insane and no one would believe him, featuring some horrible publicity for his company. So, grudgingly, Geraldo signed away his loft and moved to a more family-appropriate apartment in Long Island City, hiring the first nanny he interviewed to handle raising the baby because, good god, he was supposed to leave for Hong Kong in three days.
"I sure did a great job raising myself."
This kind of thing abous sums up Sam's childhood. His father would spend weeks at a time in other countries on other continents, sending him toys and gifts from Spain, Austria, Taiwan, Japan, and just about everything in between. He was raised by a variety of nannies, each of them moving on after a few years to get more fulfilling jobs or start their own families, all the while teaching little Sam that the people you think you love don't often stick around for you. Growing up with so much change made him very self-reliant, taking the subway to his private school by himself by the time he was ten, entertaining himself with computer games, books, and imaginary friends, and making sure his homework was done so he didn't have bad grades reported to his father across the globe.
Sam thought he had it all figured out. Things were going great, he thought, because he had all the friends and things he wanted, he could go and do whatever he wanted, and his nanny was more or less just there to get a free paycheck from his dad. That's when he turned thirteen and his mom started to interfere. He came home from school on the last day of seventh grade, when he was thirteen, to find a way-too-hot woman sitting in his kitchen, drinking out of his expensive porcelain coffee cups, and staring at him like something he'd never been stared at before. "Sammie," she cooed (he cringed away from her pink-manicured touch), "I'm your mom, sweetheart. Didn't you miss me?"
"Suddenly, I'm in the middle of Bumble-, Long Island and I have a mom now."
His dad showed up right around the time that this woman's touch made Sam literally glow pink and suddenly become way too hot for a thirteen year old. His blemishes disappeared, his curls became silkier and bouncier, and--Jesus Christ, who the hell dresses a kid like this? So, that was that: Sam Velez, at thirteen, was a claimed son of Aphrodite and more confused than he was in algebra just the week before. "You're going to camp," were his father's words. No answers, no explaining, no nothing until his "mom" claimed to be Aphrodite. Sam thought, naively, of course, that he'd had his first experience with hard drugs and didn't realize it. Geraldo wouldn't look at his son, and Sam was dead confused--how many summers had he spent alone, at home, and now this? Featuring a crazy lady who says she's a Greek goddess and his mom? What?
A little mad and more than a little confused, Sam found himself in his father's Porsche on the way to Long Island. He remembers the traffic being horrible that day (though, when is traffic going from Queens into Long Island not horrible?) and the air conditioner being so high that he couldn't hear the music his father insisted Sam didn't turn up too loud. Seeing signs that said "Camp Half-Blood" literally scared the young boy, but before he could question it, his father was all but literally gone and Sam was alone, again. Only, this time, it didn't feel as okay. He didn't feel as sure of himself anymore. Something weird was going on, he knew, and his first clue was the half-goat thing walking around beyond the people in bright yellow t-shirts checking kids in. Maybe his mom being Aphrodite was the least crazy thing he'd heard all week.
A little mad and more than a little confused, Sam found himself in his father's Porsche on the way to Long Island. He remembers the traffic being horrible that day (though, when is traffic going from Queens into Long Island not horrible?) and the air conditioner being so high that he couldn't hear the music his father insisted Sam didn't turn up too loud. Seeing signs that said "Camp Half-Blood" literally scared the young boy, but before he could question it, his father was all but literally gone and Sam was alone, again. Only, this time, it didn't feel as okay. He didn't feel as sure of himself anymore. Something weird was going on, he knew, and his first clue was the half-goat thing walking around beyond the people in bright yellow t-shirts checking kids in. Maybe his mom being Aphrodite was the least crazy thing he'd heard all week.
LIFESTYLE how does your character spend their time at camp half-blood? do they stay there for only the summer or year-round? a good paragraph should suffice. include things like daily shenanigans they're apart of, if they spend time in the archery field or the sword fighting arena. do they hang out with their own cabin more or fraternize with the enemy aka other cabins? do they help out at the infirmary or hang with the nymphs and satyrs? anything to be honest!
RELATIONSHIPS
FATHER GERALDO VELEZ (ANTONIO BANDERAS) · 54
"Sure, Dad. I'm fine. Camp's good. Yeah, have fun in London."
Sam's relationship with Geraldo more or less had two periods: the childhood period and the adulthood period, the latter of which has just started. When Sam was younger, he rarely saw his father; he couldn't tell you the color of his eyes or what he liked to drink with dinner, even if he wanted to. This disconnect was Geraldo's choice, as dealing with children was never his strong suit and he simply couldn't fathom being a parent, much less to a child of a goddess. As Sam got older, though, Geraldo started to try and impart his wisom to teach his son how to "be a man". This is all too little, too late for Sam; his relationship with his father feels eternally cold, so he refuses to listen to anything Geraldo tries to tell him. In Sam's eyes, his dad shouldn't be allowed to check in and out of his life whenever he wants, so Sam tends to reply to Geraldo's texts with the shortest conversations he can manage. Those conversations are polite enough that he doesn't get in trouble, but clipped enough to make it clear that he doesn't want to talk to his father. What's good for them,is that one reaching out to the other is rare. Going home for visits is tedious on Sam, and he's noticeably more melancholy whenever the holidays draw near.
MOTHER APHRODITE · ANCIENT TBH BUT DON'T TELL HER THAT
"Who's the parent here?"
Did I mention that Sam has a parent complex? Because he does. Just like how he's bitter about Geraldo checking in and out of his life, he's bitter about Aphrodite not bothering to show up until he turned thirteen and then pretending like everything was fine. The difference is that Aphrodite's efforts are less awkward, and almost too comfortable. It creeps Sam out how well she knows him without ever speaking to him while he knows nothing about her (apart from myths and stuff). She tends to spoil him with presents and (largely un-wanted) attention, like she does with his siblings, but something about all of this doesn't sit well with Sam. Her visits constitute an eye-roll out of him and he tends to speak defensively, never giving her more of an answer than she directly asks for. She's constantly whining about "why is my baby boy so cold to me?" As if she doesn't know. This is really a lot of immaturity on Sam's own part, since he refuses to give Aphrodite a chance, then complains that he doesn't know half of who he is and his mother is unloving. When he gets really annoyed with her, he starts talking back to her and this can, actually, get a bit cruel on his part. Obviously, his pettyness is from her.
SOURCE OF SANITY ANDREIS RILEY (JACKSON HALE) · 18 · APOLLO
"I'm crashing in your cabin. My sisters are driving me insane."
On the surface, these two are very similar in personality, so it's no surprise at all that they clicked instantly. Both are confident and flirtatious, seeking new adventures in simple things (e.g. who can get Dionysus to say the words "flan" or "communism" first) and avoiding trouble without much difficulty. Both are warm and giving, too; but this is where their similarities end. Andreis is more upbeat than Sam overall, and Sam is more of a logical, grounded thinker than Andreis. They make a good pair, though, when Sam plans and Andreis executes. Boredom isn't a word in their friendship, and they're pretty confident that it won't ever be. They've been at camp together for five years, Andreis convincing Sam to do crazy-stupid things while Sam hides from his sisters. This occasionally extends to full-out pranks on Sam's sisters--but don't tell the girls, since they've been blaming it on Ares' kids year after year. Being a child of Aphrodite, too, Sam figured out about "The Wednesday Situation" very quickly and insists on setting them up by any means necessary. Maybe he is his mother's son, after all, but only Andreis gets to about that without a death glare. And, finally, these kids meme together. Actually meme together. These two are kind of trash, and together they're a flaming trash heap that smells like sunshine and roses.
FRIEND? KINDA? WEDNESDAY TSAI (ESTELLE CHEN) · 17 · THANATOS
"Everyone else and you're kind of okay, I guess."
Ask Sam how he got to be fiends with Wednesday Tsai, and he'll kind of just stare at you and shrug. "I didn't know we were friends?" he'd say, genuinely confused. Really, their not-friendship was slow to bloom over the years they've known each other. When they first met, Sam actually felt a sort of pity-from-a-distace for her; as in, he felt bad for her, but thought getting closer to her would be social suicide. But it still happened, anyway, thanks to countless sarcastic remarks and eye-rolls at Sam's sisters. Getting close-ish to Wednesday was social suicide in a way, but it was actually so freeing for Sam because his sisters finally stopped following him around in fear of encountering Wednesday. No one really appreciated his inappropriately jaded humor before Wednesday and her almost-dad-joke-level sarcasm, so a side of sam that doesn't get much air time suddenly got a promotion to a prime-time slot on network TV and he got to finally roll his eyes at his sisters with someone who just understood. Wednesday and Sam aren't super close by any means, but Sam enjoys her company whenever they happen to be near each other at sing-alongs or other campwide gatherings.
MOST TOLERABLE SISTER MIRANDA DONOVAN (SCARLETT LEITHOLD) · 18 · APHRODITE
"Just don't turn into one of them and we're fine."
That girl that was also claimed by Aphrodite on day one of camp? That was Miranda. These two learned very early that being claimed by your godly parent at the same time can really bond a pair of kids. Miranda, though she's much more popular camp-wide than her brother, is everything Sam ever wanted out of a sister: down to earth, able to defend herself, and out for a good time. She also had the life that Sam, in a way, longed for: a dad who was present in her life. As they got closer, Sam would start visiting her family in Connecticut instead of going home to his apartment and father's staff, learning to act like a normal, not-spoiled-rich-kid. They're both highly defensive of each other, taking great pride in "screening" (read: screwing with) all of the other's prospective love interests and more than willingly lying the other out of any kind of trouble. An adventure with one isn't a real adventure without the other, so Miranda is included in all of Sam's master plans and Sam is dragged on Miranda's spur-of-the-moment excursions to screw with Ares' kids. They aren't exactly inseperable, however; both are independent enough to have sepearte lives and catch up with hot gossip back in the cabin later.
THE INTERVIEW
"WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST IMPRESSION OF CAMP?"
"Jesus, that's like five years ago," he snorts. "Picture a kid who thinks he owns the world because dad's got crazy money and he does whatever he wants because said dad is on another continent more than he's home. Throw that kid into a summer camp for magic-doing, sword-fighting, super-humans with gods for parents and tell him he's one of them. Think I was terrified? Because I was terrified."
"WHAT POWER(S) HAVE YOU INHERITED FROM YOUR IMMORTAL PARENT?"
He raises his brows, glancing down at himself. "Uh, dashing good looks? Dad's not that hot, so..."
Realizing that his attempt at humor , hard, he nervously chuckles. "I can feel how other people feel if I concentrate hard enough. And, if I concentrate even harder, I can made them feel what I want them to--as long as it's love or lust, basically. Making the enemy feel so much compassion or pity for you that they can't attack you--or steal your flag--is a damn easy way to win stuff.
"I know what you're thinking," he adds. "No, I can't charmspeak. I wouldn't want to. Miranda can, though. Don't tell her I told you."
"I know what you're thinking," he adds. "No, I can't charmspeak. I wouldn't want to. Miranda can, though. Don't tell her I told you."
"WHAT IS YOUR FATAL FLAW?"
"You're totally expecting me to say vanity or hubris because of who my mom is," he scoffs with a roll of his eyes, crossing his arms over his chest--slightly defensive in posture. "I have a hero complex. Mom's not just the goddess of lust, but of love, you know? Love equals compassion equals wanting to stand up for the little guy. I see someone needs help, I try to save them. It just happens, and I'm pretty sure saving someone else's is going to kill me someday, but at least I'd die doing a good thing. That's a legacy I'd want."
"WHAT DO YOU LIKE BEST ABOUT THE CAMP?"
He pauses for a beat before a half-smile takes his smooth features for a fraction of a second. "Camp grew on me. It's so not-intense that I feel more... Me? I'm not competing to be the richest or do the coolest or have the nicest crap. The materialism I grew up with is so exhausting, you know? The camp shirts are disgusting, but at least everyone has to wear them and we all look stupid. Especially my sisters. I feel like I think a teenager is supposed to feel, maybe. I've gone from Gossip Girl to, like, 500 Days of Summer or something."
There's a silent pause, then, and his face turns sour as if there's something he wants to add--then it comes: "Please don't tell anyone I watched Gossip Girl. I'll never live that down."
There's a silent pause, then, and his face turns sour as if there's something he wants to add--then it comes: "Please don't tell anyone I watched Gossip Girl. I'll never live that down."
"APOLLO IS HOT, FACT OR OPINION?"
"You're asking Aphrodite's kid?" He an eyebrow. "Fact. That's because he's the sun god."
--DALLIANCE ▴ MARIA ▴ 7/10
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